Iwas glad to seo that, whilst eulogising the work performed by Lord Kitchener and his fellow officers in the Soudan, the Prime Minister in his speech at the ban-quot on Wednesday evening did not forget the great work which has just been performed by Admiral Nol who, with the able assistance of his French, Russian and Italian confreres, has, been the means of freeing Crete from the yoke of the Sultan. Lord Salisbury characterised the conduct of the Admirals as splendid. I have sometimes thought," he said, ' that if the Cabinets were all dismissed' and an Admiral installed in the place of each of them Europe would get on better than it, does now." Of Admiral Neal ho said believe that if we are able to restore to Europe a pacified and a well-administered Crete it will be due more to his individual action than to that of any living man."
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